FLYING WHALES elevates aerospace innovation with content and AI
When you’re designing 60-ton capacity cargo airships, you’re not just battling gravity and engineering. You’re tackling colossal amounts of content.
To that end, we’re thrilled to announce that Franco-Canadian sustainable aeronautic startup FLYING WHALES has expanded its use of Box’s AI-powered content platform to unlock the value of all its unstructured data.
With a mission to develop sustainable transport solutions for remote regions, FLYING WHALES first selected Box in 2024 to manage vast amounts of data generated through extensive testing across diverse systems and partners. Expanded tools will enhance content curation, centralize sensitive engineering documents, and help teams meet strict aerospace compliance requirements.
Box has been a game changer in transforming our data management strategy, becoming our single source of truth and optimising collaboration and efficiency across our teams.
— FLYING WHALES CIO, Anthony Courtois
Courtois continues “Box Hubs with Box AI empowers our teams to quickly access crucial information from our content, helping us strengthen our expertise in the aerospace industry. Looking ahead we’re keen to expand our use of Box’s Intelligent Content Management platform to better extract intelligence and insights from the metadata across our unstructured content; PDFs, videos, images, and more.”
As the organization continues to drive innovation and impact with Box, expanded tools will empower teams to:
- Curate and publish content across the enterprise with Box AI for Hubs
- Meet rigorous standards for aerospace compliance and cybersecurity, critical for Flying Whales and their partnerships with other aerospace companies and government entities
- Enhance information governance with automated classification policies, which allow granular structuring to handle sensitive engineering documents
- Enable independent control over encryption keys and centralize sensitive content with Box KeySafe
In today’s AI-first era, sustainable digital-native organizations like FLYING WHALES are uniquely positioned to leverage AI to redefine how work gets done in their industries
— Samantha Wessels, SVP, General Manager for EMEA at Box
Wessels continue « “As a strategic technology partner, Box helps FLYING WHALES unlock the untapped value of unstructured data — which makes up 90% of enterprise content hrough our AI-driven platform. We look forward to continuing to help FLYING WHALES drive productivity gains and accelerate innovation to achieve critical business outcomes.”
Headquartered in France with subsidiaries in Montreal, FLYING WHALES is the only aeronautical company selected for the 2025 cohort of the French Tech Next40 program, which brings together France’s 40 most successful start-ups with global leadership potential. The organization is developing a transport system designed to boost economic growth in land-locked regions, while sharply cutting the environmental footprint of cargo.
Box empowers many of the largest and most regulated enterprises around the world to transform business processes with enterprise AI, power their workplace collaboration, and protect valuable information. With today’s announcement, FLYING WHALES joins global organizations that have adopted Box to power new ways of working, including Oxfam, Swissport, US Air Force and Axiom Space, and leading French brands like Rémy Cointreau, Eurostar and BETC.